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traveling all around new york, doing a lot of surrogate scheduling. i worked in the press shop also. i was working there during college. i remember them saying to me, we will pay you if you decide to put off your senior year of college and stay on the campaign. i knew i couldn't even broach this topic with my parents. they would tell me to leave the room. then it turned out that the first, my very first day of classes of senior year and i woke up and i turn on a radio station in new york and they announced andrew cuomo was dropping out of the primary that day. that, for me, it was a wonderful learning experience but i decided after that that i wanted to be on the other side. >> what did you like about what you saw up close in politics and what didn't you like? >> i liked seeing the one on one connection between a candidate and voters. and really seeing how voters react. i remember during the obama campaign and the photographer used to travel quite a bit and you would talk to her about her career and kind of what photographs she look for. she would say
traveling all around new york, doing a lot of surrogate scheduling. i worked in the press shop also. i was working there during college. i remember them saying to me, we will pay you if you decide to put off your senior year of college and stay on the campaign. i knew i couldn't even broach this topic with my parents. they would tell me to leave the room. then it turned out that the first, my very first day of classes of senior year and i woke up and i turn on a radio station in new york and...
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>> i live in new york just outside of new york in pelham and our kids are in juneau, l.a., austin and new york. >> in your book, you talk about william scheirer. who was he? we have some video to show in a moment. >> at the time i'm writing the story is just -- he has just turned 30, in paris. he has been a writer for various publications in the united states. he is desperate to go what he thinks is the next big story which is germany. he says i'm dying of boredom in paris. most people would not think paris is a boring assignment. it goes to show once again that as a journalist, your instinct is to go to that next big story and he could see it was happening in germany. and in 1933, after hitler takes power, he gets an assignment from hearst international news service to go to germany. goes there and is an incredibly energetic, very perceptive correspondent and is hired by ed morrow at cbs and he stays in germany or in vienna right through the beginning of the war. he writes at the time -- he publishes his berlin diaries after he leaves berlin which comes out in 1940, which has a huge
>> i live in new york just outside of new york in pelham and our kids are in juneau, l.a., austin and new york. >> in your book, you talk about william scheirer. who was he? we have some video to show in a moment. >> at the time i'm writing the story is just -- he has just turned 30, in paris. he has been a writer for various publications in the united states. he is desperate to go what he thinks is the next big story which is germany. he says i'm dying of boredom in paris....
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i had to go to new york to defend myself all over the place. he was considered anti-israel. it was partly my fault. part of the investigation of foreign lobbying was a jewish agency that was doing things it was not supposed to do. it was a great lesson for me that you cannot have everything. i forget who the congressman was who did not sign the manifesto. he lost the next election from arkansas. >> we should stop and tell those who have never heard of the southern manifesto. 19 democratic senators signed it. ?hat was it >> it was a civil rights bill and the government should stay out of amending all of the terrible jim crow laws and the education the situation in the south. >> they were against brown versus the education -- the board of education. they did not want the schools integrated. i read something that said, we all get along down south. we do not need to bring the races together. >> there was a long speech that said, we have to increase the education for african americans. they were not equal. they were separate, but they should be equal. if you did not say that, if
i had to go to new york to defend myself all over the place. he was considered anti-israel. it was partly my fault. part of the investigation of foreign lobbying was a jewish agency that was doing things it was not supposed to do. it was a great lesson for me that you cannot have everything. i forget who the congressman was who did not sign the manifesto. he lost the next election from arkansas. >> we should stop and tell those who have never heard of the southern manifesto. 19 democratic...
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i have "the new york times" app. twitter is like a news wire. going through and checking to see what the headlines are constantly. it is because of who i follow, you can see when things are starting to pick up a buzz. >> what did you study at barnard? >> political science and history. >> if you have to name people you admire, who would they be? >> politics, i think -- and it is not because i work for them -- the kennedy family. working for them was something i really learned to respect and appreciate to just see how this family and generations has instilled and ingrained in them. mario has been a mentor for me growing up and pursuing a career path. reporters i look to, diane sawyer is a woman i look to. charlie rose is an amazing interviewer and storyteller. al hunt has taught me how to cover washington, how to ask the right kind of questions, and the right way to frame how i approach it. >> here you are with charlie rose. >> this is a domino effect we are seeing unfold in the middle east. you have to take each country by country. palaver urged
i have "the new york times" app. twitter is like a news wire. going through and checking to see what the headlines are constantly. it is because of who i follow, you can see when things are starting to pick up a buzz. >> what did you study at barnard? >> political science and history. >> if you have to name people you admire, who would they be? >> politics, i think -- and it is not because i work for them -- the kennedy family. working for them was something i...
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guest: i started as a copy boy on "the new york times". i was in a training program after i get out of the army for "the wall street journal". i quote for free. i was a washington correspondent for three small n.c. papers. i worked for the "washington star." ben hired me in 1966 for "the post." then for four years or so, i try to start a newspaper, which failed, but it was a great experience. then i was the executive editor of the new republic for several years. then marty came along and i came back to the post. host: i have a stack of your columns from the last three- four months. before i read some of this, what you consider your beat? guest: i think it's what i call national security, but it is national security is not just the pentagon and the intelligence agencies, cia, but the hill and the public at large. it is spread all over the place. i'm focused on national security. host: when did you start law school? guest: i start of law school in 1992 -- i started law school. no i started in 1995. host: why? guest: ben bradley and kay graha
guest: i started as a copy boy on "the new york times". i was in a training program after i get out of the army for "the wall street journal". i quote for free. i was a washington correspondent for three small n.c. papers. i worked for the "washington star." ben hired me in 1966 for "the post." then for four years or so, i try to start a newspaper, which failed, but it was a great experience. then i was the executive editor of the new republic for several...
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he grew up in new york city. attended howard university. and i think those of us who grew up in the heart of the deep south, who came under the influence of martin luther king jr. and individuals like jim lawson, who had a sort of a baptism in the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence, we took the long, hard look. we believed that our struggle was not a strug that will lasts for a day or a few weeks or a few months or a semester. it was a struggle of a lifetime and i said then and i say it even today, you have to pace yourself the long, hard look, the long, hard struggle. you have to come to that point and accept nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living. our struggle was not a struggle between blacks and whites. not a struggle between people but a struggle between what is right and what is wrong. what is good and what is evil. between the forces of justice and the forces of injustice. in the movement, during the time when i was chair of the student nonviolent coordinating committee and in the movement knits general, we called our
he grew up in new york city. attended howard university. and i think those of us who grew up in the heart of the deep south, who came under the influence of martin luther king jr. and individuals like jim lawson, who had a sort of a baptism in the philosophy and discipline of nonviolence, we took the long, hard look. we believed that our struggle was not a strug that will lasts for a day or a few weeks or a few months or a semester. it was a struggle of a lifetime and i said then and i say it...
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after he graduates from harvard he runs the family art business on fifth avenue in new york and meets an american woman whose parents were born in germany and her name is helen. and in 1921, as a married couple they move to munich and thereafter he meets hitler and interestingly enough, because of -- he becomes an early propagandist -- and because of his whole american background connecting point for many americans who want to meet hitler and want hitler to gain in prominence. his story told throughout this book is one which intersects with so many of the americans. and what i found fascinating about the research in the book is you get -- you get certain scenes where someone will say, oh, i saw putsy, he came to my house, the ap bureau chief and wore a strange nazi-looking uniform and he has british tailoring and the same scene from somebody else who saw putsy, the editor of foreign affairs and you begin to see that these stories not only intersect but reinforce each other. it's one of the great fun parts of being the amateur historian journalist and discovering these stories that in
after he graduates from harvard he runs the family art business on fifth avenue in new york and meets an american woman whose parents were born in germany and her name is helen. and in 1921, as a married couple they move to munich and thereafter he meets hitler and interestingly enough, because of -- he becomes an early propagandist -- and because of his whole american background connecting point for many americans who want to meet hitler and want hitler to gain in prominence. his story told...